Here is when the clocks go back an hour and why

As the sun begins to set earlier people are often left wondering when the clocks will go back. After an incredibly hot summer, it won’t be long until the leaves start to turn a warm shade of gold and the air becomes much fresher. If autumn is your favourite season, get ready as here is all you need to know about the time change and what it will mean for you. When do the clocks go back? The clocks will go back by one hour at 2am on Sunday, October 28 October 2018 , meaning we’ll gain one hour of sleep and it’ll be lighter in the mornings. So, 2am on Sunday, October 28 will become 1am instead. The clocks go back on the last Sunday in October to mark the end of British Summer Time (BST) and to take the UK back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Why do we put the clocks back? British Summer Time, which is also known as Daylight Saving Time, was first introduced by William Willett in 1907 to make use of the daytime and prevent wasting it first thing in the morning during the summer. He published a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight in a bid to get people out of bed earlier in the summertime by changing the nation’s clocks. He then spent the rest of his life trying to convince people that his scheme would work before he died in 1915 when the clock-changing plan still had not been put… [Read full story]